# New and Improved Wallpaper Generator **URL:** \ **Category:** API And Third-Party Apps\ **Created:** [June 15, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321 "2019-06-15T21:55:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Masayoshiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/masayoshiro/32/217604_2.png) [@Masayoshiro](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Masayoshiro)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/1 "2019-06-15T21:55:31Z")
Hello, fellow acolytes! # WaniKani Kanji Wallpaper Generator I’ve written a new WaniKani Kanji Wallpaper Generator with some advanced features. It’s here: [https://wkw.natural20design.com/](https://wkw.natural20design.com/) ![Sample%20image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/8/8/88740ca40c49dd2171d1d11d2499c8c88a90840a.jpeg) ## Features - The kanji in the wallpaper have a different color according to your WaniKani progress (i.e. Apprentice vs. Enlightened vs. Burned, etc.). - **Automatically update your wallpaper** in **two clicks** without opening your web browser - Choose from over **21 different kanji sets** , including Heisig, JLPT, WaniKani Levels, etc. - There are over **10 different color schemes** , and you can modify them with your own colors - There are **5 different fonts** - There is support for **Multiple Monitors** , **Phones** , and **Multiple Devices** - You can split your kanji into sections with optional section titles - You can add your own **wallpaper title** - [Open source](https://github.com/Bennycopter/WaniKani-Wallpaper-Generator) - And more ## Refreshing your computer wallpaper is super easy You can set up your computer so that refreshing your wallpaper is as easy as double-clicking on a batch file or as right-clicking your desktop as in this picture (instructions to do this are on the site). ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/3/0/302f181eed5451dfcd5c783b8b80cc897babed1b.png) # Browser Support ✔ Chrome ✔ Firefox ✔ Safari ✔ Microsoft Edge ver. 18+ ❌ Microsoft Edge before ver. 18 (if you use Edge and it doesn’t work, try updating or switching your browser) ❌ Internet Explorer # OS Support ✔ Windows 10 ✔ Mac OS X # How to use this 1. Firstly, grab an API v2 “Personal Access Token” from here: [https://www.wanikani.com/settings/personal\_access\_tokens](https://www.wanikani.com/settings/personal_access_tokens) 2. On my site, paste your API key into the login form, and click “Log In” 3. Adjust the settings **and click “Save Settings” (that’s important!)** 4. Scroll down to the bottom and click “Download Wallpaper” That’s it for the basic usage. If you want to enable the advanced features (like automatic updating, multiple monitors, or updating the Windows 10 lock screen), follow the instructions on the site. # How to contribute If you have an idea, then post it down below. If you know how to code, then check out the source code [here](https://github.com/Bennycopter/WaniKani-Wallpaper-Generator). If you like this, let me know! I would love to hear your feedback, and I will gladly accept new feature ideas, public-domain fonts, and color schemes to add to this. ---
**Author:** ![anon49019449](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@anon49019449](https://community.wanikani.com/u/anon49019449)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/2 "2019-06-15T22:33:38Z")
Looks pretty cool, thanks! ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/b/7/b7febdf5764680b533eab815cdfdafe98fedd25f.png) ---
**Author:** ![alohawahine59](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/alohawahine59/32/255093_2.png) [@alohawahine59](https://community.wanikani.com/u/alohawahine59)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/3 "2019-06-15T22:47:16Z")
All the settings to customize it is great, looks awesome. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Masayoshiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/masayoshiro/32/217604_2.png) [@Masayoshiro](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Masayoshiro)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/4 "2019-06-15T23:38:41Z")
Thank you! I’m glad to see it in action! ---
**Author:** ![Masayoshiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/masayoshiro/32/217604_2.png) [@Masayoshiro](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Masayoshiro)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/5 "2019-06-15T23:39:02Z")
Thank you! And welcome to the community 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Technotron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/technotron/32/255003_2.png) [@Technotron](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Technotron)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/6 "2019-06-15T23:57:59Z")
Love it! Any chance for 4k support? The screen size values only go up to 3000. ---
**Author:** ![Oxxygen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/oxxygen/32/232491_2.png) [@Oxxygen](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Oxxygen)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/7 "2019-06-15T23:58:49Z")
Wow, this is _ **VERY** _ cool! It also puts in perspective how little kanji I’ve seen so far, haha. Not sure if you plan on developing it further - but I think it would be interesting to see if a GIF form is possible. One that could show your over-time progress - turning each character the color(s) as you progressed them. I’m not sure if the API gives you that information (although it might!) and it would be a lot of data to parse/order, but seemed like an interesting concept. ---
**Author:** ![Masayoshiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/masayoshiro/32/217604_2.png) [@Masayoshiro](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Masayoshiro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/8 "2019-06-16T00:13:25Z")
I’m a 1920x1080 plebeian and never even thought about 4k, but I just now changed the limit to be 4000 instead of 3000 🙂 Thank you for the feedback! ---
**Author:** ![Masayoshiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/masayoshiro/32/217604_2.png) [@Masayoshiro](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Masayoshiro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/9 "2019-06-16T00:20:56Z")
Thank you very much! Yeah, I have so little kanji learned that I needed to borrow someone else’s key for testing and development because I only have, like, 18 Apprentice kanji and over 2000 unseen kanji 😑, lol I do plan on developing this further, actually, and that is a great idea! Regular gif wallpapers aren’t really well supported, but there is this one program called Rainmeter that you can use to add custom, interactive features to your desktop (including animated wallpapers). Your idea intrigues me, so I’ll look into it! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Poikkax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/poikkax/32/232260_2.png) [@Poikkax](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Poikkax)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/10 "2019-06-16T00:21:22Z")
Very nice and pretty! Thanks! ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/0/5/05d8a24953f481c2e8607e3bcae7c924c15aeb9c.png) ---
**Author:** ![Technotron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/technotron/32/255003_2.png) [@Technotron](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Technotron)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/11 "2019-06-16T00:38:13Z")
Thank you! looks really good so far tho, just would look better in higher res 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Masayoshiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/masayoshiro/32/217604_2.png) [@Masayoshiro](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Masayoshiro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/12 "2019-06-16T00:43:48Z")
Thank you! And also, seeing your wallpaper as gradient as it is gave me an idea for an easy way to reverse colors, so I just implemented it, and then I had another idea. So here is two more buttons that do stuff: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/2/3/2331cee8a76d68160096611a114a6a1b4df92c2d.png) ---
**Author:** ![Masayoshiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/masayoshiro/32/217604_2.png) [@Masayoshiro](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Masayoshiro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/13 "2019-06-16T00:53:32Z")
Okay _fine_. 4100, but no higher 😉 If you do want better relative resolutions, though, you could always decrease the number of kanji that are showing on the page. For example, with JLPT, you could do just JLPT N5 to N3, since N2 and N1 will take a while to get to. Or with WaniKani levels, you could just do WaniKani Pleasant to Painful until you get to Painful. ---
**Author:** ![sagestruggler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/sagestruggler/32/371187_2.png) [@sagestruggler](https://community.wanikani.com/u/sagestruggler)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/14 "2019-06-16T01:06:56Z")
![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/c/a/ca450fcdfa140733b798ddf7a87f15a4035a0abf.png) This is sooo cool and now my iPad background (which a majority of my studies is done on). Thanks so much. 🤩 It’ll be neat to watch it fill more as I level. ---
**Author:** ![Technotron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/technotron/32/255003_2.png) [@Technotron](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Technotron)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/15 "2019-06-16T01:08:46Z")
Haha thank you, just wanted to increase to 4k tho 😄 Really great work with this background though. ---
**Author:** ![alohawahine59](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/alohawahine59/32/255093_2.png) [@alohawahine59](https://community.wanikani.com/u/alohawahine59)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/17 "2019-06-16T03:16:25Z")
oh wow! Much more color than mine but love those names for the categories! ---
**Author:** ![Walter-it](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/walter-it/32/619759_2.png) [@Walter-it](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Walter-it)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/18 "2019-06-16T08:29:24Z")
It looks very nice. I’d suggest to add iPhone XR along the default resolutions (it’s different from iPhone X). Other than that it is very cool 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Masayoshiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/masayoshiro/32/217604_2.png) [@Masayoshiro](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Masayoshiro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/19 "2019-06-16T09:13:34Z")
iPhone XR is added now – thank you! ---
**Author:** ![emucat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/emucat/32/202831_2.png) [@emucat](https://community.wanikani.com/u/emucat)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 9:52am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/20 "2019-06-16T09:52:46Z")
I’ll check soon 😉 Also the automation part as I had it before. This is how it looked last week… we’ll se now ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/d/8/d87f7227056b1feb5c0707846d4a627c95656cca.png) ---
**Author:** ![ScholarGipsy](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@ScholarGipsy](https://community.wanikani.com/u/ScholarGipsy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321/21 "2019-06-16T10:14:44Z")
Thanks a lot! Where have you been in early 00’s? I dreamt of wallpapers from Matrix movie. Now I have it though. 🙂 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/a/a/aaec86b35f63ab4912add3a7b7eb8f3c3c8f939f.png) [Next page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-and-improved-wallpaper-generator/37321.md?page=2)